I've tried to passthrough Behringer audio interface, as well as HX Stomp (to, of course, avoid dual-boot) and it stuttered like crazy. Maybe there is a way to make it more "realtime" but it's not the default, at least in VirtualBox.

Yeah passing through usb devices to a VM for audio seems to be a dark art like working with a bunch of analog equipment. Everything has to be tuned. I do understand why a bare metal windows and/or mac computer is always in a studio, one can skip the head ache. Even if main DAW is Linux.

VirtualBox is the worst VM software.

QEMU on Linux with kvm is gold.

> Windows VM

That's not wine, and I'd rather keep dual booting that running Windows VMs that barely can keep up. Have you tried doing music production inside a Windows VM before?

Yes Ableton, VST and usb. I have used the Coreweave windows VM with Nvidia to run everything audio and video, though haven't routed USB devices to it.

Cognitively it's easier to just buy a second PC for windows. But threadripper pro etc have so many cores and pcie lanes it's easy to run multiple OS VMs with dedicated GPUs at close to native speed in one box.

I have Windows only audio and 3d software. I ended up with a windows VM with GPU passthrough on Linux. It sits on its own m2 drive for the rare occasion I need to dual boot. So Windows has been become legacy software for me. (IClone and CC).

And Steam Deck is there.

But I think the desktop interface is legacy for anyone under the age of 25, I get a kick out of watching them navigate a desktop.

We do have a trojan horse with social security. Overnight we can become the largest single owner of global corporate stocks and bonds.

The half baked hardware comments are humerous, because pretty much any piece of software is half baked if we are lucky.

But have they hired anyone back?

Why would they, “AI” will be much better in 6 months!

Yes to this keep core base load in your own bare metal systems, use the clouds for what they do best.

My daily driver is Rocky 10, but my control plane is a Pixel 6 on the ATT network but I control almost nothing on that layer. It is why I have been moving most of my core workloads off SaaS and back to local.

Someone actually paid for this?

It's a steal

As a company that supports OT systems we hate seeing level 5 in the Purdue model with direct write access to level 1 and 0.

Link describing the acronyms in the above comment:

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/what-is-the-purd...

Thanks CJ, I live with that chart, but forget maybe most don't. And to add 4 to level 2-0 can also be an attack vector, but seeing straight 5 to 1-0 happens more then people want to admit even with the "firewalls"

The end is gold. The first half is kinda intro, but then the language tightens up and they rock it.